The series features speakers whose research challenges International Law’s self-understanding as a community of states and problematise its implicit understanding of the constitution of the social. With an eye on the ...

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 26 talented researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Amsterdam UMC (AMC location). The Vidi funding amounts to a maximum of €850,000 per ...

In his seminal work De Jure Praedae, Hugo Grotius, often recognised as the ‘father of international law’, argued that commerce with Asia was essential for sustaining the Dutch state. The Dutch East India Company ...